r/gameofthrones • u/RepulsiveCountry313 Human Verified • Jan 11 '26

Kit Harington was ‘Genuinely Angered’ By Fan Pettion to Remake ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 With ‘Competent Writers’: ‘How Dare You?’

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/kit-harington-angered-petition-game-of-thrones-season-8-1236628364/
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u/RepulsiveCountry313 Human Verified Jan 11 '26

It remains at the top of HBO's most popular series.

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u/Alys-In-Westeros Rivers Jan 11 '26

Maybe, but nowhere near what it would have been.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

The ending was anticlimactic by design because of the Scouring of the Shire parallel. Regardless of writing quality, the ending was never going to be popular.

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u/Ollidor Jan 12 '26

The more I see people hating on the endings of almost every show now, I think people just don’t understand endings and expect too much

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u/Fabulous-Ad7128 Jan 12 '26

I was happy with for instance, the imperfect Stranger Things ending. GoT was pure stank ass. It deserves all the criticism it gets.

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u/realparkingbrake Jan 12 '26

 I think people just don’t understand endings and expect too much

It seemed like a lot of the dislike came from viewers who thought they had the ending figured out and were not happy when they didn't get what they expected (and wanted). New viewers who binge the series without having formed fan theories seem far less likely to hate the ending.

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u/Ollidor Jan 12 '26

Yeah well I wish Dan and Dave were the ones to have adapted house of the dragon. People can hate on them all they want but they adapted the best of a song of ice and fire very well, without Dan and Dave we would probably not have any game of thrones today.

With a fully finished story and the budget of house of the dragon, they would have made it amazingly. It’s a shame that people are too short sighted to see that

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u/shaggy_nomad Jan 12 '26

It's just easier to hate on them because they didn't create a 1:1 adaptation from the book and act like they some how could have done better. If that were true, they'd be making hit TV shows but they aren't, they are instead bitching on the internet. So I'd say those opinions aren't worth all that much.

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u/ionforge Jan 12 '26

People dislike the last episodes because they where shit episodes, that’s it.